NJCA brought 700 people to the March in DC. Thank you to all who marched! #LoveTrumpsHate #Resist

On Saturday 4 million women and their allies marched all across this country for equal rights in the largest protest in American history. Then, on Monday, Republicans in the NJ State Assembly voted against equal pay for women. 3 Republicans who had previously supported the bill actually changed their vote and voted no, aligning themselves with Chris Christie instead of their female constituents.[1]

And one particular Senator, Michael Doherty (one of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters in NJ), before voting against the NJ Pay Equity Act said that he felt that statistics that compare women’s wages to those of white men were “denigrating” to white men. [2] This is simply ridiculous. Fighting for equality is not a zero sum game. Because women gain rights doesn’t mean that men lose theirs. And we have a message for Senator Doherty – what’s really denigrating is that in 2017 white women in New Jersey make 82 cents to every dollar a man makes, and women of color earn substantially less.

We simply aren’t just going to take this kind of Trumpist behavior in New Jersey. Join us as we fight back.